Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955 will be on view through Saturday, July 3, 2010. It may be your last chance to see these rare pictures by the legendary artist. The next photo show at the DIA will open on November 24, 2010 when we present An Intuitive Eye: André Kertész Photographs 1914-1969. The exhibition surveys Kertész’s career with nearly 100 photographs taken in Hungary, Paris and New York.
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Museum staff at the DIA is finishing installation this afternoon and Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955 will open tomorrow. Here’s a few photographs from behind the scenes.
DIA Lighting technician Grant West getting a perfect five foot candles of light on each photograph
Collections Care Specialist Doug Bulka at the reading table.
A peak midway through the gallery
Karen Sinsheimer, curator of photographs, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Next Sunday, May 17, 2009@2PM, Karen Sinsheimer will be discussing work in the exhibition Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky. It will be Karen’s first visit to the Detroit area from California where she works as curator of photographs at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Karen spent two years developing the exhibition, working directly with Jeffrey Gusky, Mara Vishniac Kohn (Roman Vishniac’s daughter), and Maya Benton, director of the Vishniac archive at the International Center for Photography, New York. The lecture is open to the public and free with museum admission.
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